Earlier this October, Apple released an article on its developer website. It provided more details regarding how to better develop and present augmented reality based effects using the ARKit platform. Apple also encouraged all developers once again that right now is the best time to launch more software products using ARKit. After the releasing of… Read more »

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Business 2.0 has an interesting write-up today on contenders in the mobile phone search industry. They point out that the Mobile Web is still a nascent technology. Well, to be frank it’s in the middle of a power struggle between telcos and standards bodies – which doesn’t help us users very much in the short-term. But on the other hand, growing…

This post was written by Ajit Jaokar, who is a R/WW guest blogger on Mobile Web 2.0 and digital convergence.

In my last post, I spoke of the differences between browser applications on the web and on the mobile device. This topic is important because the Mobile Web is all about extending the concept of web applications to mobile devices…

by Ajit Jaokar (Richard’s Note: Ajit is the second of my guest bloggers on Read/WriteWeb and he will be writing on Mobile Web 2.0 and digital convergence. Ajit runs a book publishing company called futuretext, which specializes in these topics. He also chairs Oxford university’s next generation…

A couple of weeks ago Charlie Schick posted about the lack of mobile-focused bloggers in the Web 2.0 Workgroup. Charlie wrote: “…from the list, I, of course, did not see a person focusing on mobility. I’m not surprised. Mobile might not need a special focus, but it sure should be part of the discussion.” I replied in the comments that…

I’ve mentioned that September is Month of Mobility at Read/Write Web, but I haven’t posted about it as much as I wanted to. Why? It’s because the mobile world is mostly new to me, which means I’ve had to batch process a whole bunch of information about it over the past few weeks.

The ITU (International Telecommunication Union) has just released a report entitled The Portable Internet. From the press release:

“A new set of advanced wireless technologies now promises to bring affordable, high-speed Internet connectivity to the masses. This set of technologies, and the market opportunity they create, has been termed the…

September is the Month of Mobility at Read/Write Web, I’ve decided. This month I’m going to explore the intersection between the Web and mobile devices. Principally mobile phones and PDA’s, although there’s also a trend of convergence of those two devices into “smart phones”. And let’s not forget new ground-breaking devices such as the iPod, the…